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YOL. 4 . OHOTEAU, T:p O N COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1893.. NO. 31. STTORNEY & COUNSELOR fiT LfiW. JAMES SULGROYE, A T T O R N E Y A T LAW, CHOTEAU, - - - MONT. Admitted to pi atice in Land, Pension and Patent Claims before the Interior Derpartment. Land, Water, and Irrigation Bights a Speci alty. All Legal Papers and Collections given care ful and prompt attention. : Attorney N. A. M. A. Co. Correspondents in every city in North America. Notary Public. COUNTY ATTORNEY, TETON COUNTY, T _ - W . ZMITTIEBIFIEECrZ“, L ' A W Y I M ^ FORT BENTON, - , MONT TOIEamST CL IDYTIFIP, Authorize^ to practice before the De- ; part,merit of the Interior, the Land ; Office, and the Pension and other Bureaus. T ENSION CLAIMS SPECIALLY ATTENDED T O. Cor. Main and St. John Sts., Fort Benton. S . H . D R A K E , M . D - - PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office over Bank of Choteau. CHOTEAU. MONTANA. H. Beaupre, Dentist, Has permanently located at Choteau. All «lasses of Dental Work artistically done, and fully gruarantod as represented. Do not wait until your teeth begin to ache, • \ out begin in-time, thus insure, a-hotter job, AND NO PAIN OR TROUBLE. J . H . D A Y . OOTTZEsTT'Z' S T T B V E T O B Irrigation 8s Land Surveying a Specialty. C h o t e / u , - - - M o n t a n a . A. G- W A R N E R , NOTARY PUBLIC, U. S. COMMISSIONER, \ a u t h o r i z e d t o r e c e i v e F ilings & F inal P roofs on P ublic L ands . CHOTEAU., - - - - MONT. IEEE- ZLATOUST, ILsT o ta,X3 7 - ^ ’O -T o lic DEEDS. MORTGAGES and all kinds of legal instruments drawn up. CHOTEAU, - - - - M O N T . E . C . GARRETT. A -C . WARNER. GÆRRETÏ & WARNER, CONVEYANCES, . r e a l e s t a t e , INSURANCE OHOTEAU, MONT. C h o t e a u L o d g e N o 4 4 .A.. F &c -A..1^AL. ~ Holds its regular communications on the 1st and 3d Saturdays of each month. All visiting brethren cordially welcomed. D r . S. H. D rake , W . M. A.O.U.W. Columbia Lodge, No. 47, meets in K. of P. hall every Thursday at 7p.m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. 0. W am , ace T aylor , M. W. T. W. L ett , Recorder. CHEVALIER LODGE, NO. 12. KNIGHTS OF - PYTHIAS. Meets every Satur day night. Visiting brothers fraternally welcome. JULI US HIRSHBERG, C.C A. C WARNER, K. R.S. T FREE TRADE FALLACIES. Cleveland and the Tariff—False Arguments of the Executive. At this time when a depleted public treasury confronts us, when many of our people are engaged in a hard strug gle for the necessaries of life, and when enforced economy is pressing upon ' the great mass of our countrymen, I desire to urge with all the earnestness at my command that congressional legislation be so limited by strict economy as to exhibit an appreciation of the condition of the treasury and sympathy with the strained, circumstances of our fellow citizens. The duty of public economy is also of immense importance m its intimate and necessary relations to the task now in hand of providing revenue to meet government expenditures, and yet reducing the people’s burden of fed eral taxation. After a hard struggle tariff reform is directly before us. Nothing so import ant claims our attention, and nothing so clearly presents itself as both an op portunity and a duty, an opportunity to deserve the gratitude of our fellow citizens, a duty imposed upon us by our oft repeated professions and by the emphatic mandate of the people. After full discussion our countrymen have spoken in favor of this reform and they have confided the work of its accom plishment to the hands of those who .-are; solemnly^pledgea-to d b.i/^Jf-Htheregis.i anything in the theory of representa tion in pnblic places of the people and their desires, if political officers are really the servants of the people, and if political promises and professions have any binding force, our failure to give the relief so long awaited will be sheer recreancy. Nothing should intervene to distract our attention or disturb our effort until this reform is accomplished by wise and careful legislation. While we should staunchly adhere to the prin ciple that only thè necessity -of reveuue justifies the imposition of tariff duties and other federal taxation, and that they should be limited by strict econ omy, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that conditions have grown up among us which in justice and fairness call for discriminating care in the dis tribution of such duties and taxation as the emergency of our government ac tually demand. Manifestly if we are to aid the people directly through tariff reform one of its most obvious features should be a re duction in the present tariff charges upon the necessaries of life. The bene fits of such a reduction would be palp able and substantially seen And felt by thousands who would be better fed and better clothed and better sheltered. These gifts should be the willing bene factions of a government whose highest function is the promotion of the welfare of the people. . . . . . . Not less closely related by our peo ple’s prosperity and well being is thé removal of restrictions upoD the im portation of raw material necessary to our manufacturers. The.wòrld should -be open to'our .national ingenuity and enterprise. This cannot be while fed eral legislation, through, the imposition of high tariff/ forbids to American man ufacturers as cheap materials ’ as those used by their competitors: It is quite obvious that5 the enhancement of the price of our manufactured produets, resulting from this policy, not only con fines the market for these products within our own borders, to the diredb disadvantage of our own manufactur ers, bub also increases their cost to our citizens. The interests of la bor are certainly, though inditectly, involved in this fea ture of our tariff system. The sharp competition and active struggle nmong our manufacturers to supply the limited demand for their goods soon fill the narrow market to which they are con fined. Then follows a suspeneion of working mills and factories, a discharge of employes, and distressin the homes of our workingmen. Even if the often dis proved assertion could be made good that a lower rate of wages would result from free raw material and low tariff duties, the intelligence of our working men leads them quickly to discover that their steady employment, if permitted by free material, is the most important factor in their relation to tariff legisla tion. A measure has been prepared by the appropriate congress committee em bodying tariff reform on the lines here in suggested, which will be promptly submitted for legislative action. It is the result of much patriotic and unsel‘ fish work, and I believe it deals with its subject as consistently and thoroughly as existing conditions permit. I am satisfied that the reduced*, tariffs duties ►. __ ..... ation, will within the near future,- though perhaps not immediately, pro duce sufficient revenue to meet the needs of the government. The committee, after full considera tion. and to provide against a tempor ary deficiency which mayexist’before the business of,the country adjusts itself to the new tariff schedules, have wisely embraced in their plan a few additional internal revenue taxes, including a small tax upon incomes derived from certain corporations. These new assessments are not only absolutely just and easily borne, but they have the fu rtber merit of being such as can he remitted without unfavorable business disturbances when ever the necessity for their imposition no longer exists... In my great desire for the success of this measure I cannot restrain the sug gestion that its success can only be at tained by means of unselfish counsel on the part of the friends of tariff reform, and as a result of their willingness to subordinate personal desires and am bitions to the general good. The local interests affected by - the' proposed re form are so numerous • and so varied that i f v all insisted upon their own profit the legislation embodying the re form must inevitably fail. The Independent Has Learned. The Helena Independent of Nov. 12, contained an editorial alleging that “ many of the wool- growers of this state strongly favor putting wool on the free list as the best means of -making a steady market-for the Montanajproduct at living prices, but not one of them, so far as. we. have,learned, believes the McKinley la w to be. of any use to the.wpol grower, although’ there are those of course, who believe in it in some degree.” Copies of this editorial were sent to all the sheep men of the state, irrespective of party or size of herds, and their opinions asked of it. As may • be imagined, they made haste to reply promptly, and scores of answers are at hand. Not one supports the contention of the newspaper. On the other hand, without exception, they declare that free wool will inevitably wipe' out the sheep business in Montana, the threat of it alone , having shrunk the value of their invest ments from *$6,000,000 to $2,000,- 000. The Billiugs Gazette publishes letters from a number of wool growers of that section in reply to the Independent’s allegations and all of them are to the point and give the Independent the lie square in the teeth. J. S, Shaub, of Glendive, writes as follows: “ I am in favor of protection first, last and all the time. If they would send M r.. Cleveland to. congress, Montana wool would sell for 18 cents in Dss than , thirty days. The lunatic that runs the Helena Independent had better/be chained up before he gets away. A man who is insane enough to pub lish such an article ought not to be allowed to run at large.” Public D«bL statement. W ashington , Dec. 1.— The pub lic debt statement shows a net in crease in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during the month of November to be $6,716,498. The interest bearing debt has in creased $180. The debt on which interest ceased since maturiny, decreased §35,190, and the debt bearing no interest decreased $343,166. The decrease in the cash balance in the treasury was $7,- 094,674. The interest bearing debt is $585,039,22, and the debt bear ing no interest, $374,-589,715. The total debt is §961,568,316. Certifi cates and treasury notes, offset by an equal amount of cash in treas ury, amount to $590,229,302, an increase of $11,619',441. The net gold reserve to day was $82,959,- 049 and the net cash balance, $12,- 240,567. The total available bal ance is $85,199,616, a decrease of $7,094,674. The total cash in the treasury is $734,320,435. The re ceipts of the government during the month of November. were $23,979,401, and the expenditures $31,302,026.
